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...radical a maneuver as Republicans claim. Created in 1974, reconciliation has been used 21 times, mostly by Republicans, who employed it to, among other things, pass two sets of George W. Bush's tax cuts. Reconciliation has often been the way that Congress has made major rewrites to health care policy; for instance, the COBRA program that allows people to continue buying their employers' coverage after they leave their jobs gets its name from the acronym for the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985. (See the top 10 health care reform...
Obama finally laid down his demand for action in a speech on March 3 at the White House. "No matter which approach you favor, I believe the United States Congress owes the American people a final vote on health care reform. We have debated this issue thoroughly, not just for a year but for decades," he said. "I have therefore asked leaders in both houses of Congress to finish their work and schedule a vote in the next few weeks." (See the top 10 players in health care reform...
...choreography on health care has been difficult in no small part because of the long-standing animosity between the two chambers of Congress. An old joke among House Democrats has it that the Republicans are merely adversaries; the Senate is the enemy. That tension has grown in the past year as House Democrats have cast a series of politically treacherous votes on such issues as health care and climate change, only to be left exposed as the measures have been shredded or buried altogether in the procedural thicket of the Senate. So it's no surprise that the inclination...
House Democrats are unlikely to agree to pass the Senate bill without some kind of ironclad guarantee that the Senate will actually follow through on its promise to make changes to its original measure. Among those: scaling back the so-called Cadillac tax on very expensive health care policies and stripping the bill of sweetheart deals for individual Senators, such as the now infamous "Cornhusker kickback" that Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson arranged to exempt his state from having to pay additional costs for expanding Medicaid. One possibility under discussion would have at least 51 Senators signing a letter promising...
...less expensive. It also does not include a government-run public option for providing coverage to the uninsured - a provision of the original House measure that had been anathema to those who saw it as the leading edge of what they feared would be a government takeover of health care...